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Teachers stage protest over junior cycle plans

Unions say the Government is playing a ‘dangerous experiment with childrens’ futures’

Teacher’s Union of Ireland (TUI) president Gerard Craughwell said teachers were “angry” at the Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn’s failure to listen to their concerns about the Junior Cycle Student Award programme.

“The key issue here is the assessment- there is no transparency and how will it be implemented. Will it be the same in Wexford as it is Galway?”

Ms Maguire said teachers were in agreement the current Junior Certificate programme needed to be changed. However, she said more discussions on the details needed to be held between the Minister and teachers.

The demonstration of up to 27,000 teachers was organised by ASTI and Teacher’s Union of Ireland.